Epee Fencing Attacks : Taking the Blade in Epee Fencing
December 9, 2009 by
Filed under EPEE
Master taking the blade in epee fencing; learn attacks and moves for epee fencing in this free fencing video. Expert: Amy Boyle Contact: www.amykboyle.com Bio: Amy has been a fencer and swordswoman for eleven years. She fenced for the University of Southern California and the University of Northern Colorado and has taught fencers of all ages. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan
Takes Blade in Sixte, ends in Septime. This is a bind, not envelopment. Nice Salle though.
“un círculo completo”???? forget it. Not a good idea at all. Why? First, your opponent will withdraw his/her epee 2 cms and you are dead in the arm before you know what happend Second, your opponent will move one step ahead towards you before you have made 1/4th of the cricle. And I could go on… Sorry for my english…
No no no. This technique is horrible. You will be BURNED in a competition doing what she shows.
Doing what she does would lead to being parried. She attempts to use the outer part of her blade to take control of her opponents inner part of the blade… Her opponent could easily have turned the move against her.
You don’t parry with the outer part of the blade! Perhaps women do… :X
I believe this woman may be a fraud. The technique she uses in her attacks are flat out incorrect. I cannot believe that she received formal training because her form is still in the beginner stages. Watch her other videos, in her attacks, her body moves first – but, in fencing the body FOLLOWS blade extention – that’s lesson one.
Also, this woman is not listed has having competed in any USFA sanctioned fencing events. So, who is she, and why is she portraying herself as an expert?
I know that some of the top fencers use the french grip. The French team ofcourse…but the pistol grip is more common. If you can’t disarm the enemy with a Battuta it is very annoying at least! Because it’s exhausting to hold the weapon while somebody is constantly slapping the blade
@LtRealness
The French grip is not a good choice?? What an idiotic comment. Some of the top fencers in the world use a French grip.
You must be exclusively fencing against beginners if you think disarming someone using a French grip is “easy”.
Well I’m not going to say that the US fencers are horrible but they aren’t very good. You can’t learn anything useful from these videos.
The grip on the “teacher’s” épée here (which is a french grip) is not a good choice. You can easily disarm people with that grip with a simple so called “Battuta” which is a swipe to the middle of the enemies blade. The pistol grip is much more common =)
i kno tht alredy
no a parry is what you do to stop an attack, a repost is the continuation of a parry to an attack.
actuley your left hand shd be like back of u not where it plezses to go
last time i cheacked those where called paries
I agree with Neale88.
Rapiers (Standard fencing sword, for those who don’t know…) are meant to be flexible. Sportswise, they don’t cause as much harm in sparring. Combatwise, they absorb attacks easier if they are.
i dont agree with the its just called a block thing is but whatever… this made me giggle, i now have an image of my coach shouting down the peist at me “when she does that mystery, do that thing without a name and then whatever you do dont parry as it doesnt exist!!”
i should be able to like this more than onece for the fact i now look insaine laughing to myself
in my exstensive experience of epee they really are called parries. thats why when you go to an international competition all the national coaches shout at their fencers stop “parrying when you dont need to”
and an attack with opposition is called taking the blade, as in take the blade in ceist then attack its not a parry
Geez, ThelisMD, cool off.
It’s not a parry. A parry is a defensive action. Taking of the blade is used offensively.
Besides, I don’t think she meant to neglect point control. She’s probably exaggerating the movements since it’s kind of hard to observe her movements in a video.
Yes, her blade control is bad, but you could have just commented without using any vulgar words. And about the hand up, the left hand can go wherever it pleases as long as it is not used to parry the blade.
By the way, parry is when you defend not when you attack.
Anyway, yes, you could have made a better video.
Phireo
Wow. This was my laugh of the day.
In conclusion, quit.
Hahahahaha, what is this shit!?!?!
First off, its called a parry. I don’t know what the fuck you are doing in this video, but it certainly would not work in ANY bout.
I guess you took a Parry 8 in this video, but it’s not very clear.
Second of all, what the fuck are you doing with your left hand. First its raised ABOVE your head, then it becomes a limp fish.
You can’t lunge worth a shit, and your pointe-control is the worst I have ever seen.
shouldn’t the movement be done with the wrist not the shoulder?
But you have hardly any leverage if you take the blade with your arm straight!
Attacking in epee without taking the opponents blade is such a charming way to commit suicide.
Haha yeah
…in all seriousness now, that’s effectively correct. Whilst I can see the joke in your comment, it is actually mostly correct.
Basically nothing in epee is named – the only things that are are the 2 main types of attacks – an attack (normal attack), and an attack with opposition (a riposte following a parry).
Besides from those two names, yeah…there’s nothing else.
So in epee, there are no names for anything, its all a mystery